page_title: Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet
section_title: 1790–1805
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet / Political career / 1790–1805
caption_attribution_description: English: Appuldurcombe House SE viewThis is a photo of listed building number 1218394.
context_page_description: Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet, PC, FRS, FSA was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1801. He was a noted collector of antiquities.
context_section_description: Worsley re-entered Parliament as MP for Newtown, Isle of Wight, from 1790 to 1793. He became British ambassador to the Republic of Venice from 1794 until Venice's annexation by France in 1797.  In the latter post he continued collecting antiquities (the French Revolutionary Wars keeping prices low at the time) and worked hard to keep France's ambassador from taking advantage of Venice's neutrality. He managed to escape Venice when the French invaded, transferring soon after his departure from a civilian convoy to a 14-gun Royal Navy sloop, leaving his art collections from Venice on the convoy with instructions to stay at Fiume to await a more peaceful situation in which to continue to England. He landed in England in mid-September 1797 and received a £600 annuity from the crown for his services.
  Having been re-elected in absentia for Newtown in 1796, Worsley held that seat until Pitt the Younger resigned in February 1801, ending his participation in public life.
caption: Appuldurcombe House
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